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Rome: An Empire's Story by Greg Woolf
RRP: $42.88$31.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190687458Author Greg WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm)... -
Wales and Western Region Railways: The Late 1940s to late 1960s by Brian Reading
RRP: $31.18$21.16The 1950s and 1960s was a time of profound cultural and technological transformation. With images and vivid recollections, we journey back to post-war Wales and the Western Region of British Railways. We explore favourite routes and railway places, many... -
Goose Green: The first crucial battle of the Falklands War Mark Adkin 9781474626255
RRP: $19.48$13.46Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflictThe most in-depth and powerful account yet published of the first crucial clash of the Falklands war - told from both sides.'Thorough and exhaustive' Daily Telegraph'An excellent and fast paced... -
Naval Battles of the Second World War: Pacific and Far East by Marriott, Leo 9781399098984
RRP: $39.00$27.87The Second World War was a truly global conflict and maritime power played a major role in every theatre of operations. Land campaigns depended on supplies transported by sea, and victory or defeat depended on the outcome of naval battles. So Leo... -
Japanese Aircraft Equipment: 1940-1945 by Robert C. Mikesh
RRP: $124.78$81.32As a companion book to the previously published Japanese Aircraft Interiors, by the same author, this book defines more closely the equipment that outfitted these aircraft. There are chapters on such aircraft installed equipment as instruments, radios,... -
Chasing the Sixpence: The Lives of Bradford Mill Folk by Rachel Bellerby 9780954743185
RRP: $19.48$16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954743185Author Rachel BellerbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Fort Publishing LtdPublisher Fort Publishing Ltd -
Legends: Twelve People Who Made South Africa a Better Place Matthew Blackman 9781776391066
RRP: $27.28$18.14We have a lot to be positive about in South Africa. With all our problems, it's easy to feel bleak. But hold those thoughts, because Legends might be just the tonic you need to drive off the gloom. This book tells the stories of a dozen... -
AN ANALYSIS OF IAN KERSHAW'S THE HITLER MYTH: Image and Reality in the Third Reich by Helen Roche
RRP: $12.68$12.11Few historical problems are more baffling in retrospect than the conundrum of how Hitler was able to rise to power in Germany and then command the German people - many of whom had only marginal interest in or affiliation to Nazism - and the Nazi state... -
Panzergrenadiers 1942-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Ian Baxter
RRP: $29.23$28.06The term Panzergrenadier was introduced in 1942 and applied equally to the infantry component of Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and later Waffen-SS Panzergrenadiere divisions. As this classic new Images of War book describes, these elite divisions fought as... -
Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak by Selma Leydesdorff
RRP: $40.93$35.82In July 1995, the Army of the Serbian Republic killed some 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica-the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. Surviving the Bosnian Genocide is based on the testimonies of 60 female... -
A Woman's Right to Know: Pregnancy Testing in Twentieth-Century Britain by Jesse Olszynko-Gryn 9780262544399
RRP: $111.15$76.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544399Author Jesse Olszynko-GrynFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir by Telford Taylor
RRP: $42.90$25.10"A masterly work of military and judicial history." -New York Times. Telford Taylor's book is a defining piece of World War II literature, an engrossing and reflective eyewitness account of one of the most significant events of our century.In 1945, the... -
Thistle Soup by Peter Kerr 9780957306226
RRP: $19.48$17.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957306226Author Peter KerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 301Imprint Oasis-WERPPublisher Oasis-WERPWeight(grams) 324gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 21mm -
Miriam's Farm: The story of Haggs Farm, D.H.Lawrence and the Chambers family by Clive Leivers 9781915434074
RRP: $19.50$16.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915434074Author Clive LeiversFormat PaperbackImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
American Military History: A Very Short Introduction by Joseph T. Glatthaar
RRP: $17.53$12.97Since the first English settlers landed at Jamestown with the legacy of centuries of European warfare in tow, the military has been an omnipresent part of America. In American Military History: A Very Short Introduction, Joseph T. Glatthaar explores this... -
Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London: Prostitution and Control in the Metropolis, 1730-1830 by Tony Henderson 9780582264212
RRP: $140.38$134.75This is the first full-length study of prostitution in London during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is a compelling account, exposing the real lives of the capital's prostitutes, and also shedding light on London society as a whole,... -
When God Was a Black Woman: And Why She Isn't Now by Joseph R Gibson 9780976468387
RRP: $38.98$33.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976468387Author Joseph R GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Kitabu PublishingPublisher Kitabu PublishingWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
History of the Wars: v. 1: Bks.I & II by Procopius
RRP: $48.65$46.33Late antique military operations.Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533... -
Ghosts: A Haunted History by Lisa Morton
RRP: $25.25$25.00In the history of the numinous there are few things more common than the belief in ghosts. From the earliest writings such as the Epic of Gilgamesh to today's ghost-hunting reality TV shows, ghosts have chilled the air of nearly every era and every... -
The Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon by Karen O'Brien
RRP: $46.78$16.69Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in three instalments from 1776 to 1788, is widely regarded as the greatest work of history in the English language. Starting with the accession of the Roman Emperor Commodus... -
Maximus the Confessor by Andrew Louth 9780415118460
RRP: $74.08$65.09St Maximus the Confessor, the greatest of Byzantine theologians, lived through the most catastrophic period the Byzantine Empire was to experience before the Crusades. This book introduces the reader to the times and upheavals during which Maximus lived... -
Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Alison Stone 9780192874719
RRP: $171.60$155.61Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women thinkers have been left out of the philosophical canon and many of them are barely known today. The aim of... -
Disruption: Why Things Change by David Potter
RRP: $51.66$44.36How do things change? The question is critical to the historical study of any era but it is also a profoundly important issue today as western democracies find the fundamental tenets of their implicit social contract facing extreme challenges from forces... -
Venice: A New History by Thomas F. Madden
RRP: $40.95$26.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147509802Author Thomas F. MaddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 213mm... -
The Last Heroes: Voices of British and Commonwealth Veterans by Gary Bridson-Daley 9780750985734
RRP: $39.00$29.91The Second World War is famed for being the conflict that changed the face of warfare, and it is the last that changed the face of the world. In addition to remembering those that passed away in those dark days of war, a sincere debt of gratitude is owed... -
O Jerusalem! by Larry Collins 9780671662417
$32.49An account of the bitter 1948 dispute between the Arabs and Jews over Jerusalem, highlights the role of the British as well as prominent individuals in the struggle.Book InformationISBN 9780671662417Author Larry CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
A Misunderstood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, and Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949-1976: Revised Edition by Zhihua Shen
RRP: $39.00$30.99Today, the People's Republic of China is North Korea's only ally on the world stage, a tightly knit relationship that goes back decades. Both countries portray their partnership as one of "brotherly affection" based on shared political ideals-an alliance... -
The Gaucho Martin Fierro by Jose Hernandez 9780873952842
RRP: $39.78$39.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873952842Author Jose HernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 99Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The Mongols David Morgan (University of Wisconsin, USA) 9781405135399
RRP: $64.25$56.39The revised second edition of this highly praised introduction to the Mongol Empire takes account of recent scholarship in the field. Provides an overview of the government, religion, and politics of the Mongolian Empire Considers the effects of Mongol... -
Glikl - Memoirs 1691-1719 Glikl Glikl 9781684580040
RRP: $29.25$29.00"My dear children, I write this for you in case your dear children or grandchildren come to you one of these days, knowing nothing of their family. For this reason I have set this down for you here in brief, so that you might know what kind of people you... -
London Underground Serial Killer: The Life of Kieran Kelly by Geoff Platt 9781473872257
RRP: $25.33$19.15The full story of the life and times of Kieran Patrick Kelly, the London Underground Serial Killer, who wandered up and down the Northern Line of the London Underground between 1960 and 1983, pushing innocent people that he had never met under trains,... -
The Outbreak of the First World War by Sir Hew Strachan
$52.20To Arms is Hew Strachan's most complete and definitive study of the opening of the First World War. Now, key sections from this magisterial work are published as individual paperbacks, each complete in itself, and with a new introduction by the author. ... -
Livy: Ab urbe condita Book VI by Livy
RRP: $54.58$47.33Book VI of Livy's Ab urbe condita covers the history of Rome from 390 to 367 BC, a period during which the city, while in the process of recovering from being sacked by the Gauls, faced serious civil disturbance, the resolution of which fundamentally... -
Manchester at War 1939-45: The People's Story by Graham Phythian 9780752491028
RRP: $25.33$19.25This new book is a remarkable and moving account of life on the home front in Manchester during the Second World War. Based on transcripts of recorded interviews with senior civilians and former members of the Armed Services, this is an invaluable... -
What Is a Jewish Classicist?: Essays on the Personal Voice and Disciplinary Politics by Simon Goldhill
RRP: $35.08$31.08In recent years, there has been no issue that has convulsed academia and its role in society more stridently than the personal politics of its institutions: who has access to education? How does who you are change what you study and how you engage with... -
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics by Kevin Hazzard 9780306926099
RRP: $33.13$22.50Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A 9-1-1 call might bring police or even the local funeral home. But that all changed with Freedom House EMS in Pittsburgh, a group of Black men who became America's... -
The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder by Sean McFate
RRP: $37.03$21.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062843593Author Sean McfateFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past by Professor Ana Lucia Araujo
RRP: $44.83$41.89Exploring notions of history, collective memory, cultural memory, public memory, official memory, and public history, Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past explains how ordinary citizens, social groups, governments and institutions engage with... -
A Brief History of the Caribbean: Indispensable for Travellers Jeremy Black 9781408713488
RRP: $19.48$13.46A concise history of the Caribbean's long and fascinating history, from pre-contact civilisations to the present day This is a concise history, intended for travellers, but of inestimable value to anyone looking for an overview of the Caribbean and its... -
To Kill Rasputin: The Life and Death of Grigori Rasputin by Andrew Cook 9780752439068
RRP: $25.33$19.25The murder of Rasputin on the night of 17 December 1916 has always seemed extraordinary: first he was poisoned, then shot and finally drowned in a frozen river by Russian aristocrats fearful of his influence on Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.Book...